Re: Marriage bond

Elizabeth Martin was a widow when she married Smith Abernathy.Here's an obit for her--

Death and Obituary Notices from The Southern Christian Advocate, 1867-1878, Issue of May 16, 1876, page 214 -- Mrs. Elizabeth Abernathy, whose maiden name was Young, was born in Warren county, N. C., December 11, 1775; married in 1801 to Geo. W. Martin of Va.; married a second time in 1809 to Smith Abernathy of N. C.; and died at the residence of her son-in-law, Col. Jas. E. Rembert, in Sumter county, S. C., April 3, 1876. She attached herself to the Baptist church. (ancestry.com)